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That's just the perspective of the photo and the bars are swept forward slightly. You are looking at the back of the handlebar, not the side of the stem.
It is a hideously ugly bike though. It looks to me like they just traced the UCI boxes directly without applying any kind of design consideration.

chiroshi
timmah!
Big fan of the new Astana bike